Studies show that hosting Olympics and WC are net costs to locations/countries that do so. This isn’t new and isn’t a surprise to anyone who did any research on it. It’s a glamor and showcase opportunity for cities or nations who decide to host it, mostly on ego, And with FIFA involved, it’s bound to be about as corrupt as fucking possible with bribes, payoffs, no-compete bids and all the rest.

Your officials let you get fleeced, as they weren’t up to the task of reviewing what they were committing to, congrats!

Did Palantir have its fingers in NHS yet?

“Proceed to emergency room unless skin pigment darker than X value or if against genocidal ethno-states, in which case your rights have been replaced with a dildo. Go fuck yourself.”

We do; we socialized the cost of private, off-limits care.

A $200 discretionary fine, that’ll teach 'em!

Was a bit of a head scratcher, I was reading Brown was irked he was included in Gianni’s potential talks, which is understandable as he’s carried the team during significant portions of Tatum’s absences. Bos definitely throwing in the towel on this core.

Still don’t know who legit contenders are in the east after this, NYK and Philadelphia? Mia is too empty to do anything even with Gianni’s unless they decide to seriously invest in this window, which TBF they are good about.

“not our responsibility, we’re just a booking portal” which is tenable as a start-up, but after a certain point, if you’re trying to build sustainable business and drive return business, you grow up and understand trust is a fundamental component of sustainable businesses.

1984/farenheit 451/Brave New World are the adolescent trilogy for me that anyone who wants to understand the nature of people and mechanics of power would do well to read.

I’d add Animal Farm to that as well.

Definitely a Dr. Evil headline. $1.3m? What is this 1992?

California: 80% of water use is agricultural and industrial but who do they lean on in drought years? Jimmy fucking John and minute showers. Corporations will not budge without force so state goes after the soft target.

Same play here.

“The company has also put a few extra locks on the payroll office. Employees can now access pay slips or update direct deposit details only from a corporate network or through a secure VPN, while Nissan adds extra identity checks before processing payroll requests.”

Time to close the barn door now that all the animals have escaped. I’m lucky enough not to have had to use PS much in my HR career but these are all common safeguards that any client let alone software provider can/should have enabled.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Yeah they needed grant a lot more than another talented point guard. Granted Jrue and lillard are in their twilights, they also have “face of the franchise” scoot?

/shockedstoat

And LaBubu, “blind box” where you don’t know which one you’re getting and to get a specific color have to repurchase. Why sell 1 to a kid when you can make them buy 150.to get the “special” one? Artificial scarcity and gambling at its finest. Set those endorphins up from a young age.

Imagine they were concerned about how addictive Diablo II was back in the day…

Imagine when spastically making alternating claims of illegal global tariffs on one of your strongest trading partners and holders of 1/4 of your sovereign debt is your 3rd-worst conversation piece.

That punk bitch was dining with a lobbiest at French Laundry during COVID when his stare had restrictions on such activities for regular plebs. Center-right narcissist playing progressive.

All the news fit to-gone! Nothing! Shop closed, bets off!

Boo. Let the billionaire subsidize his own palace. We have our own problems without welfare for the ultra rich

Good for him, dude deserves to get paid.

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